1st Edition

Women’s Health Gender and Pain

Edited By Kristina S. Brown Copyright 2025
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a feminist lens to the approach of mental health and medical care; it challenges the traditional notion of gender to expand beyond biology. The chapters in this volume also confront the status quo in the care of trans*, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals necessitating the inclusion of gender identity as part of the treatment approach and plan. Additionally, this... Read more

Introduction - Women’s Health: Gender and Pain

Kristina S. Brown

 

1. Disrupting Cisnormativity, Transnormativity, and Transmisogyny in Healthcare: Advancing Trans Inclusive Practices for Medical Family Therapists

Joshua L. Boe, Emilie M. Ellis, Kalene A. Sharstrom and Jerry E. Gale

 

2. Reducing Barriers: Integrated Collaboration for Transgender Clients

Michelle R. Dalton, Adam Jones and Jacob Stoy

 

3. The Interaction of Health Stressors and Power Imbalances in Partnered Women: Wellbeing Outcomes

Michelle Washburn-Busk, Preston Morgan and Amber Vennum

 

4. Experiencing Gender and Culture Differences in Global Healthcare Settings: American Students Providing Therapy in Jordan

Jo Ellen Patterson, Susanna Vakili, Elana Richmond and Hana Hani Abu-Hassan

 

5. Fibromyalgia in Women across the Lifespan: A Family Feminist Therapy Approach

Simone F. Lambert

 

6. Women and Chronic Pain: Understanding the challenges and empowering for change

Julie C. Hill and Lindsay S. Harrell

 

Biography

Kristina S. Brown is Professor and Chair of the Couple and Family Therapy Department at Adler University, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and Editor of the new AAMFT Systemic Ethics Textbook. Dr. Brown is a feminist qualitative researcher with a broad focus on the experiences of women across identities as represented in her scholarly work. She lives in her “empty nest” in the Chicago Loop with her husband of 30 years and their two polydactyl cats, Cameron and Ferris.